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1) The river
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival. Sequel to "Hatchet."
2) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Author
Series
Amber Brown volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Overview: Amber has a lot on her mind. Her mom is engaged. Her father is moving back to the United States. Her parents fight every time they talk on the phone--and Amber is caught in the middle. It's enough to make Amber Brown see red! (Digest) The year that she is in the fourth grade is a difficult one for Amber, as she tries to deal with escalating telephone fights between her divorced parents and her father's impending return to take joint custody...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
"Karen couldn't tell Mrs. Singer why she had to take her Viking diorama out of the sixth-grade showcase. She felt like yelling, 'To keep my parents from getting divorced!' But she couldn't say it, and the whole class was looking at her anyway. Karen's world was ending. Her father had moved out of the house weeks before; now he was going to Las Vegas to get divorced, and her mother was pleased! She had only a few days to get the two of them together...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow and Company
Pub. Date
1983.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.
8) Wonder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
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Description
August Pullman was born with a facial deformity that, up until now, prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid -- but his classmates can't get past Auggie's extraordinary face. Wonder begins from Auggie's point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
When Auden impulsively goes to stay with her father, stepmother, and new baby sister the summer before she starts college, all the trauma of her parents' divorce is revived, even as she is making new friends and having new experiences such as learning to ride a bike and dating.
Author
Series
Amber Brown volume 2
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
At the end of third grade, Amber is excited about her trip with her aunt to London and Paris, where she will see her father again, but her plans change when she comes down with chicken pox.
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
Español
Description
Miranda's three children thoroughly enjoy their huge, overdressed baby sitter/cleaning woman who is actually their father in disguise, and they dread the day when their mother discovers Madame Doubtfire is really her ex-husband.
Author
Series
American girls 1974 volume 1
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
In 1974, after Julie's parents divorce, she moves to a new San Francisco neighborhood where the school does not have a girls' basketball team, so she fights for the right to play on the boys' team.
16) A day with Daddy
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
A boy enjoys every moment of a special day with his father, as they play in the park, share french fries, and see a movie together. Includes activity ideas for parents and children.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Winnie, with notes from her friends, writes of turning her treehouse into an embassy after her newly-divorced parents become unreasonable, where she is joined by nine others with complaints.
18) Little divas
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins/Amistad
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The summer before seventh grade, Cassidy Carter must come to terms with living with her father, practically a stranger, as well as her relationships with her cousins, all amidst the overall confusion of adolescence.
20) Cookies & milk
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ellis discovers family secrets, makes new friends, and adjusts to his parents' recent divorce during a hijinks-filled summer helping his father open the world's first chocolate chip cookie store in 1976 Hollywood.
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